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#Coronavirus - @GillianKeegan Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for #Apprenticeships and Skills has written to non-college stakeholders about the measures that the Government has put in place to deal with #Covid19 and includes links to both to some new guidance - wider #FE operational guidance as well as the more specific apprenticeship guidance.

We catch up with Scott Parkin, Chairman of the Institute of Employability Professionals (IEP) at the ERSA annual conference. We chat with Scott about the future needs for Advisers of the future and then he discusses the new IEP Trailblazer programme.

The FE News team had a chat with Kate Markey, of Forward Trust (which was formerly RAPt and Blue Sky), about providing sustainable employment for prison leavers and clients in recovery. We chat in some detail about some ideas on how to 'breaking the cycle' of repeatedly destructive behaviour in learners and how to help them into sustained employment.

The government has today (Wednesday 20 June) announced a number of new appointments and re-appointments to the independent Low Pay Commission (LPC), an independent body that advises the government about the National Living Wage and the National Minimum Wage.

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